In Sub-Saharan Africa, food-related policies such as fertilizer subsidy programs (FSPs) have undergone a revival and triggered a controversy about their impact. In this article I applied a simulation-based approach to ...

This thesis investigates how remote sensing data can be used to assess the changing
state of debris-covered ice. The principal study areas are the Manaslu Region in Nepal
(papers I and III) and the Hohe Tauern National ...

As the Norwegian oil age is coming to an end, industry
and government are in need for alternative sources of
profit and value creation. At the same time, attention is
increasingly turned towards the north as ...

This master thesis is about the Cradle-to-
Cradle principles and the overall circular
economy. I have especially been looking into
companies that have chosen to implement the
Cradle to Cradle principles into their
business. ...

Smallholder agriculture in the northern savannah of Ghana is largely rain-fed, with limited facilities for irrigation. The difficulty with the use of crude hand-held farm inputs (e.g. cutlass, axe, hoe, etc.) to cultivate ...

The Bolivian state evicted USAID and the Danish
development organization IBIS for conspiracy
against the state and political meddling in
2013, and introduced the same year a new law
that involves more restrictions and ...

Expectations have been high in Ghana since the discovery of oil and gas in 2007 in the Jubilee Field, located about 60 kilometers off-shore near Sekondi-Takoradi. Owing to the potential economic growth, the city of ...

Migration research in Norway has primarily focused on refugees and larger immigrant groups, and their employment outcomes rather than on small culturally different immigrant groups from countries such as Ghana. Migrants' ...

Satellite imagery is increasingly used to monitor glacier area changes and create glacier inventories. Robust and efficient pixel-based band ratios have proven to be accurate for automatically delineating clean glacier ...

In 1895 a shed elk antler was found in a mire on a farm near Fluberg, in Søndre Land municipality in south-eastern Norway. The antler was first radiocarbon dated in 2008 and yielded the age 9,100 ± 50 BP (8,340 – 8,250 ...

Prior exploration is an instructional strategy that has improved performance and understanding in system-dynamics-based simulators, but only to a limited degree. This study investigates whether model transparency, that is, ...